One Hundred Years Ago, Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Baffled the Press and the Public
by Dan Falk/Smithsonian.com
When the year 1919 began, Albert Einstein was virtually unknown beyond the world of professional physicists. By year’s end, however, he was a household name around the globe. November 1919 was the month that made Einstein into “Einstein,” the beginning of the former patent clerk’s transformation into an international celebrity.
On November 6, scientists at a joint meeting of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Astronomical Society announced that measurements taken during a total solar eclipse earlier that year supported Einstein’s bold new theory of gravity, known as general relativity. Newspapers enthusiastically picked up the story. “Revolution in Science,” blared the Times of London; “Newtonian Ideas Overthrown.” A few days later, the New York Times weighed in with a six-tiered headline—rare indeed for a science story. “Lights All Askew in the Heavens,” trumpeted the main headline. A bit further down: “Einstein’s Theory Triumphs” and “Stars Not Where They Seemed, or Were Calculated to Be, But Nobody Need Worry.”
The spotlight would remain on Einstein and his seemingly impenetrable theory for the rest of his life. As he remarked to a friend in 1920: “At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”
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This law is a classical law valid at relatively low speeds. Einstein sought to extend the law to speeds near the speed of light or about 186,000 miles/sec. The procedure he used to do this is called analytic continuation mathematics. It involves tensor calculus and other advanced mathematical concepts. The results reduce to the gravitational laws of Newton in the low speed limit. The laws still do not include quantization at all. Wouldn’t it be nice if physics today got as much publicity as Einstein got in the last century? Most people hate physics and mathematics and avoid them like the plague.
Einstein was smart, intelligent . . . and combed the catacombs of the patents, and pulled ones that he could . . . well, let’s just say, re-invent upon expiry. They ALL do it. But, dude was thinking ahead with his theoretical observation:
“At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”
So to the 100th year anniversary of . . . whatever . . . cheers to Einstain?!? Befitting for the occasion, here’s another 20th Century marvel theory, which historians seem to be overlooking. He used his previous theory of insanity AND formulated the : “How Red Herrings Are Manufactured Out of Thin Media Hype: Insanity Relativity Theory 100 Years Hence.”
With 100 years of testing . . . The coachman and waiter are still talking about his “theory”
It’s ALL RELATIVE . . .
Exactly. His. Point.
This article has proven his theory correct! Alert the media . . . yawn.
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The equation E=mc2 was first published by Olinto De Pretto in 1903, Einstein published this same equation in 1905 with no reference to De Pretto.
The theory of relativity was published by Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincare in 1904 and Einstein published his in 1905 with no reference to Lorentz or Poincare. Most of his previous works were originated by his first wife Maric Mileva and her sources were questionable. Einstein was basically a plagiarist and being in the patent office gave him first contact to any works. This informatin can be found on the net including the timing.
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